System and Method for Generating a Digital Image Collage

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the steps of randomly dividing the first aperture into the second aperture and the third aperture, and randomly dividing one of the second aperture or the third aperture having the greater weight into the fourth aperture and the fifth aperture, result in each of the respective apertures conforming with one or more predefined aspect ratio parameters.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein each of the respective apertures are generated according to the one or more predefined aspect ratio parameters to have an aspect ratio that is between a maximum aspect ratio and a minimum aspect ratio.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the minimum aspect ratio and the maximum aspect ratio are modified to allow the respective apertures to fit into the layout in either of a portrait configuration or a landscape configuration.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein the steps of randomly dividing the first aperture into the second aperture and the third aperture, and randomly dividing one of the second aperture or the third aperture having the greater weight into the fourth aperture and the fifth aperture, result in each of the respective apertures having at least a minimum area.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of randomly dividing the respective aperture having the greatest weight into two new apertures to change the layout to a different arrangement includes randomly dividing the respective aperture along a vertical axis, a horizontal axis, a diagonal axis, or using a curved line.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of randomly dividing the respective aperture having the greatest weight into two new apertures to change the layout to a different arrangement includes randomly dividing the respective aperture into two equal parts having the same size or shape or into two unequal parts having at least one of different sizes and shapes.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more predefined constraints include one or more of a predefined minimum aspect ratio and a predefined maximum aspect ratio to which at least one of the resulting size and the resulting shape of the two new apertures are bound.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the two new apertures are generated according to the one or more predefined constraints such that the two new apertures both have aspect ratios that are between the predefined minimum aspect ratio and the predefined maximum aspect ratio.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein at least one of the predefined minimum aspect ratio and the predefined maximum aspect ratio is automatically modified to allow the two new apertures to fit into the layout in either of a portrait configuration or a landscape configuration.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the respective aperture having the greatest weight among the plurality of apertures in the layout is generated to have an aspect ratio that conforms to the predefined maximum aspect ratio.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of assigning the weight to each of the plurality of randomly configured apertures in the layout includes automatically calculating the weight for each respective aperture based on the area of each respective aperture and one or more of a normalized ratio, a ratio coefficient, an error percentage, and an error percentage coefficient.